Ruijin Hospital is a general teaching hospital founded in 1907(formally named GuangCi Hospital). The campus space is 20,000 square meters and the building space is 175,000 square meters. It has 1,385 patient-beds, 33 clinical sections and 9 medical, technical sections. The hospital employs 3,242 people, among them 367 senior doctors. It has treated about 1,587,100 emergency cases and outpatients, about 37,545 inpatients and 15,249 operations in 2001. There are 6 city level institutes, 11 labs and centers, 2 national key specialties, 2 key specialties of Shanghai, 6 key specialties supported by Shanghai Education Committee and 3 key specialties leading in medical specialties in Shanghai.
Ruijin College of Clinical Medicine takes on clinical responsibility for the specialties of Clinical Medicine, Medical Laboratory Sciences and Higher Nursing.